Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned to a discussion of the stage and the screen. "I though," she continued, "that the stage and movie life would be wild and exciting, but when I went to my first picture I found that they were all just as business-like as in the office where I had spent my time. But these people are so different They are so much more human, and so much less cold blooded. One cannot realize how surprised I was when I got to know the exponents of the imitating profession." Miss Lanphier, however, is not required to do much imitating...
...Dream Play. Strindberg's unwieldy and unhappy picture of the futility of life has been brought to being for the first time in the U. S. by the Provincetown Playhouse. As indicated by the title the action follows the wild imaginings of one whose mind is unlocked in sleep. Wealth and pleasure, disease and religion are all surveyed in a swift succession of dismal pictures ending in something like death. Christ walking upon the waters is one of the incidents. Though not badly acted by Mary Fowler and Stanley Howlett, the production is pretty generally heavy going...
...letter was referred to the Score fairy for information and has been perused by other members of the University who might been, but no trace has been curd of an organization of Independent Men, and re steps have been taken to wild the establishment of such an assemblage...
...into some statement that could be revamped as "copy." With incisive, feminine neatness she ordered her trunks unpacked, and though no prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington...
...lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat...